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Torture, Intelligence and Media in the War on Terror: Evaluating Sousveillance in Political Communication Struggles

This 130,000 word monograph should be double-weighted because it involved: generating an extensive thesis, examining three agenda-building spheres (Third, Fourth and Fifth Estates) normally examined separately and over short periods (months rather than 11 years); collecting primary sources comprising thousands of extensive documents, all qualitatively and critically analysed; using complex primary sources requiring familiarity with military and legal documents/processes; using difficult-to-access primary sources (given political and military censorship and legal confidentiality); and a necessarily lengthy data collection period (2009-2012) as new versions of events and documentation were continuously, unpredictably released (especially via Freedom of Information Act requests and memoirs).